The Boy Diver draws on a euphoric and emotional moment from the artist’s childhood to represent moments of self-determination, hope and futurity, awakening queer potentialities and energies that seem unclear in the present in order to revisualise the future. OPENING / 6pm, 26th June 2019 METRO ARTS GALLERY 2, level 2 The gallery is free […]
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‘Second Sight: Witchcraft, Ritual, Power’ brings together artists who conjure ideas related to witchcraft, sorcery and magical practices. The exhibition offers a space for intuition, rituals, collective happenings, incantations, and peripheral activity — practices recurrently dismissed as mere magical phenomena. ARTISTS Hans Baldung Grien Naomi Blacklock Eric Bridgeman Monika Behrens and Rochelle Haley Giovanni Benedetto
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Working primarily through the medium of water’s connective and transformative power, this multimedia exhibition – LIVING WATER: in flux – opens a conversation between human affect, Arctic ice-melt and extreme weather events thousands of kilometres away. Through these personal experiences Annique Goldenberg seeks to find and share her response to a call for environmental responsibility,
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URONTO Artist Community in Bangladesh call for applications for its 8th and 9th Episode of Residential art Exchange program. This year there will be two Episodes, each lasting 10 days over November/early December period. The location is a 200 years old massive Jaminder Palace at the Naogaon District of Rajshahi Division in Bangladesh with a fascinating area around it. Where is
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In this special event co-hosted by Blaklash Projects, join Jo-Anne Driessens from Gold Coast City Council and the organiser of the South Stradbroke Island Indigenous Artist Camp, in conversation with the 2019 Mentor Gordon Hookey, and participating artists Sonja Carmichael and Will Probert. Listen as they share their experiences in being a part of this
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Brisbane-based internationally acclaimed Australian artist and marine conservationist Jane James, will open the doors to her private gallery from Friday 21 June, for a two week solo exhibition of her most recent series of work – ‘Seven-Tenths’ featuring paintings, slumped glass and cold cast bronze pieces. Beneath the leafy canopy of the inner-city Brisbane suburb
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Our latest artist call is seeking artists that embrace the use of found objects in their work. Artwork entered to this open call should demonstrate the use found and reclaimed material, creating objects of beauty out of what could be considered junk. [Assemblage. and Found. Objects. Assemblage is an artistic process in which a three-‐dimensional
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Innovate Grant is now accepting submissions for Spring 2019. Innovate Grant awards (2) $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition to receiving a grant award, winners will be featured and recognized on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. For more information visit – https://innovateartistgrants.org
Held every two years, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize is designed to attract some of Australia’s finest contemporary artists, awarding a generous acquisitive cash prize of $50,000. Previous winners include Stieg Persson (2003), Dale Frank (2005), Stephen Bush (2007), Jan Nelson (2009), Tim Johnson (2011), Chris Bond (2013), Guan Wei (2015) and Margaret Loy
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This exhibition showcases new works on paper, including artist books, and individual and collaborative assemblages and collages. NightLadder’s work is underpinned by the belief in the power of the image to tell complex stories, and the balance between the materiality of the medium and the immateriality of the idea it supports. The collective rejects traditional
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Join us for a celebration of the work of trailblazing artist Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019), whose practice explored the body—often her own—as a site for questioning representation, boundaries, and social constraints. This free screening, ‘Body Rushes’, presents four key works by the artist, accompanied by discussions about Schneemann’s artistic influence with Professor Susan Best, artist Naomi
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Nationally recognised ‘plein air’ painter, Robert Malherbe, has developed a new series of landscape paintings, many of which are inspired by the South Coast landscape of NSW. His upcoming exhibition, Painted from Life, will also showcase figurative works painted in the rapid ‘alla prima’ style. Malherbe primarily works ‘alla prima’, which is a direct painting
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‘This exhibition of new works considers the quiet moments in both man-made and natural environments that feel so still, they transcend the restrictions of time. In these landscapes, I attempt to allude to the grandeur and timelessness of the natural world through an immersive use of colour and subtle rendering of light. The dream-like treatment of
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Lab.13 art contest is a call for submissions open to all kind of artists. Works allowed in the art competition are: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, mix media and video. A great opportunity for the artists, which can win a cash prize, have the opportunity to exhibit the artworks in September 2019 in Rome and
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In her latest work, local artist Kate Roberts takes her jewellery pieces further by presenting finished items, not merely as wearable art to adorn the human form, but rather as bespoke features within a larger cohesive display. Come and see them in her new exhibition at the Ipswich Art Gallery. IMAGE: Kate Roberts ‘Residium’, ‘Rippled’
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Join artist Mandy Quadrio and IMA Belltower curator Freja Carmichael in conversation, as they explore Quadrio’s use of culturally significant materials and her personal connection to sea Country. Quadrio’s ‘The Country Within’ is the inaugural exhibition of the IMA Belltower, a year-long program dedicated to Queensland art exploring the meaning of place. In this solo
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Opening – Saturday 6th July 5pm-7pm Performance – 5.30pm Boxcopy acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land upon which we operate and pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We extended this respect to all First Peoples. Boxcopy is excited to announce the first instalment of ‘Sound Offerings’, an ongoing monthly program that
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Want to hear the stories behind the work? Join artist Sally Molloy as she leads us through an artist-led listening of her latest work, ‘Backyard Reckoning’. Backyard Reckoning is an intimate sound work that invites participants to contemplate their personal relationships to colonisation and the unceded sovereign lands they inhabit. Join us as Sally shares
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Join Dr Victoria Lawson for a discussion on the writing of Claire Bishop – art historian, critic and Professor of Art History at Cambridge University. Participants will consider Bishop’s text ‘Pedagogic Projects: How do you bring a classroom to life as if it were a work of art’, from her publication ‘Artificial Hells: Participatory Art
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Callum McGrath presents a multi-channel video project inspired by research into cruising spaces used by truck drivers in the industrial Brisbane suburb of Pinkenba. The exhibition is based around a speculative future scenario where the Federal Government has given financial incentives for the training of young queer trucker drivers and has subsequently rezoned Pinkenba’s derelict environs
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Over the last ten years MONO events have become a platform for boundary-pushing experimentation in sound performance. In this special evening of performances, Room 40 and the IMA invite you to experience the ‘maximal minimalism’ of four internationally renowned artists at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts performance space. For one night only in
Do you want to inspire students to follow careers in science and art? Artists and creative practitioners are invited to apply for the 4th Artist in Residence Science Program. Please forward this email onto anyone you think may be interested. The Dutton Park State School and the Science and Technology Division of the Department of Environment and
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Alexandra’s paintings narrate her intimacy with local urban landscape. Having moved into a Red Hill ‘renovators delight’ 35 years ago, she deciphers the language of early Queensland architecture encompassed by the concrete edifices of the city. Exploring cycles of decay and repair, her highly detailed work captures these changing features. Light delineates the strong repetition evident
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Drawn from the Moreton Bay Regional Council’s art collection, Under revision presents works from four photographic series by Australian artist Michael Cook. Cook is renowned for his photographs that re-stage history, foregrounding First Nations people’s presence in Australian culture. These works challenge ingrained belief systems and encourage questions about current and past ways of thinking; creating new
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This exhibition celebrates Barrios’ process as much as the subject. Working emotively, Barrios has no preconceived notions of what an artwork will look like until it has finished. As Barrios explains, “I dispose myself before a blank piece and let it come – colours and shapes, lines and dots. Each piece takes on a life of
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The wait to see the stunning triptych, A Guidance in Time created by Quandamooka artists Casey Coolwell and Kyra Mancktelow for the University of Queensland Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) is finally over after a series of unveiling events. The highly anticipated artwork recognises all three major campuses and other UQ sites and champions a strong sense of
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Boxcopy is looking for a number of enthusiastic and motivated volunteers to fill a gallery assistant role in our exciting new South Brisbane gallery space. We are looking for students, artists, curators, arts workers and anyone that loves art to help us deliver experimental and emerging practices to Brisbane’s arts community. Boxcopy offers volunteers the
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Blak Dot Gallery, in partnership with Channels Festival, are commissioning four First Nations artists to create new screen-based work to exhibit in the 2019 Channels Festival. Applications are now open! We encourage proposals from First Nations artists that encompass all new media, including single and multi-channel video works, Virtual Reality and experimental formats. We seek
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Sal J Edwards’ ‘The Great Masculine Renunciation’ presents a menswear collection that responds to the contemporary call for the redefining and diversifying of gendered identities. Their work interrogates the unspoken line that divides acceptable masculine aesthetics from the transgressive, identifying playful ways to challenge that line through fashion practice. This exhibition is titled after J.C.
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Edwina Corlette Gallery has moved to a new location. Further along Brunswick Street in Brisbane, the new space is housed in a landmark heritage building originally constructed in the 1920s. Award-winning architect David Gole from Conrad Gargett has designed the new Gallery, maximising the proportions of the original building to provide a state of the art,
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2019 marks the 10th Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing competition and as such is a significant milestone in this now national prize, begun in consultation with the Hopkins-Weise family in memory of their aunt, Marie Ellis. Marie was the former owner of 103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley and the home of Jugglers Art Space from 2002-2018. We see
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Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery is now inviting entries from all Australian artists to Still: National Still Life Award. The award is biennial, acquisitive and open to all mediums. Still: National Still Life Award takes a fresh and contemporary approach to still life and its themes; memento mori, life and death, observation of and reverence for
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Wonderful Things is an exhibition of new work by Tim McMonagle, who through whimsical compositions, has considered the curious lifecycle of Australia’s majestic native gums, magnificent pavlovas and the personalities of the duck-billed platypus. Concurrent to his propensity for quirky imagery is McMonagle’s abiding respect for painting. Each canvas is a testament to his commitment to technique and
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Join us for a lively life drawing workshop facilitated by contemporary artist Abbey McCulloch. Suitable for all ages and abilities, the class will foster different ways of seeing, drawing and thinking, using observational and intuitive methods to learn and investigate ways to express their own mark making. Drawing materials will be supplied, however participants are
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Lara Merrett’s exhibition, Flip side, reveals an intimate, intuitive and playful approach to painting. It features delicately layered and coloured works that evoke a sense of depth and translucency. Merrett produced these new works using acrylic based inks on canvas, and at a smaller scale than her recent larger installations, these allow for a more
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Please join us at the gallery on Saturday May 11 for the opening of Joseph Daws’ exhibition,Paintings & Ceramics. Based in South East Queensland, Daws’ exhibition presents a selection of new landscape and abstract paintings, as well as ceramics. The ceramics, which take the form of “chawan” or tea bowls, are used in tea ceremonies throughout South
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